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February 13th 2012

Coroner requests Houston’s drug records

The Los Angeles coroner investigating Whitney Houston’s death has requested all of her medical records to determine what drugs she was taking at the time of her passing.

The icon, who had a history of substance abuse, was found unconscious and underwater in a bathtub in her Los Angeles hotel room on Saturday.

An autopsy performed on Sunday proved inconclusive and the cause of death has been deferred pending toxicology results, although reports suggest alcohol and prescription pills could have played a part in her demise.

Now L.A.

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February 9th 2012

Cover Art – ‘Sadie Walker Is Stranded’ (Madeline Roux)

Because it has been three days since I last mentioned zombies on this here blog and that’s far too long really… ;o) Lots of grey grasping hands and blood, just what I like on a zombie cover :o ) And here’s some blurb for you… Sadie Walker fights for survival as the dead close in… In the months since The Outbreak, Seattle has become a walled fortress – the Infected are kept at bay, and the survivors are trying to scrape back a life. But the city is rife with crime, religious cults and black-market dealings. And things are about to get much, much worse. When a group of frustrated fanatics, the ‘Repopulationists’, destroy part of the wall, zombies start swarming the city. Read more…

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January 21st 2012

All Our Worldly Goods

All Our Worldly Goods. Irene Nemirovsky. 1947/2008. Vintage Books. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith. (French title: Les Biens de ce Monde.) 265 pages.

They were together, so they were happy.  

What All Our Worldly Goods lacks in characterization, it more than makes up for in beautiful writing. Nemirovsky’s novel has great atmosphere: a rich, detailed setting. The characters are more simple than complex human beings, but, I think there are enough presented to get a flavor of what life was like across the generations in the troubled decades between the start of World War I and the beginning of World War II.

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January 16th 2012

Books best-sellers: January 15, 2012

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Private: Number 1 Suspect” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

2. “Love in a Nutshell” by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly (St. Martin’s)

3. “Death Comes to Pemberley” by P.D. James (Knopf)

4. “77 Shadow Street” by Dean Koontz (Bantam)

5. “11/22/63″ by Stephen King (Scribner)7. “Locked On” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam)

8. “The Litigators” by John Grisham (Doubleday)”Death Comes to Pemberley” by P.D. James (Knopf)

9. “The Best of Me” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

10. “Kill Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

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January 10th 2012

Concert review: Oklahoma City Philharmonic, pianist Andrew von Oeyen offer satisfying performance

The Oklahoma City Philharmonic is an orchestra whose programming remains strongly anchored in the classical and romantic periods. So it’s always a treat when a concert features music that was written before or after those eras.

In a rare foray into baroque music, the orchestra’s recent classics concert opened with Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks,” a 1749 work composed to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle that ended the War of Austrian Succession.

Joel Levine drew ample majesty and pomp from the opening Overture, with dotted rhythms carefully executed and a tempo that was brisk but never rushed. As

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